When Uncle Sam’s Your Medical Adviser

Too large a segment of the public still doesn’t understand what happens when the government is in charge of spending funds for health.

           

It can never be even-handed when there are budgets and limited funds to consider.

           

Example: We already have this to a degree in the United States, when more research is done on breast cancer than on prostate cancer. That happens because of political pressures. In turn, AIDS research had always received more funds than did breast cancer.

           

In Europe, rationing of drugs and treatment results from chronically limited funds. Medical research in the U.S. will eventually be curtailed as well, when funds are constrained. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)